RSS feed of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel News stories about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals en Copyright 2009, United Nations United Nations Logo http://www.un.org/media/utilities/unlogo_blue.gif http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel 80 United Nations Logo Assisting Myanmar's development efforts the focus of senior UN official's visit http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33168&Cr=myanmar&Cr1= Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations will support a review of Myanmar's efforts to achieve the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and help the country improve its agricultural sector, a senior official with the world body said during a visit to the South-East Asian nation. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33168&Cr=myanmar&Cr1= Women are major agents for progress in climate change, development goals - Ban http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33113&Cr=woman&Cr1= Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Women, among the first victims of climate change and enduring social ills, must also be seen as principal agents for change both in curbing global warming and in attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the lot of humankind, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33113&Cr=woman&Cr1= New UN projects seek to speed up progress on global anti-poverty goals http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32939&Cr=mdg&Cr1= Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Ninety new United Nations development projects will be launched over the next three years, a top official said today, to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at slashing a host of social ills, including extreme hunger and poverty, infant and maternal mortality, and lack of access to education and health care - all by 2015. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32939&Cr=mdg&Cr1= Africa's efforts to achieve anti-poverty goals in peril, warns Migiro http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32858&Cr=mdg&Cr1= Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Africa's efforts to meet the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 deadline are threatened by the impact of the global financial crisis on the continent's economies, said Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32858&Cr=mdg&Cr1= World must recommit to slash maternal mortality as goal lags far behind - UN http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32731&Cr=reproductive+health&Cr1= Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST The target of slashing maternal mortality and ensuring universal access to reproductive health is the furthest from success of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the world set itself in 2000, a senior United Nations official has warned, calling for renewed political will, funding and international solidarity. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32731&Cr=reproductive+health&Cr1= Record-breaking 173 million people take stand with UN against poverty http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32653&Cr=poverty&Cr1= Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST Smashing a Guinness World Record, more than 173 million people around the world joined forces with the United Nations to call on global leaders to stamp out poverty and take action to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their deadline of 2015. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32653&Cr=poverty&Cr1= Ban to discuss climate change and development goals during trip to Seattle http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32630&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST The subjects of climate change and the world's continuing efforts to achieve the social and economic targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be high on the agenda when Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travels to the United States city of Seattle next week. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32630&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= UN must help poor nations meet looming development, climate deadlines - official http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32456&Cr=undp&Cr1= Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations development system must quickly build the capacity of national partners to meet the multiple challenges facing them, from achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to fighting climate change, as a host of deadlines loom on these issues, a top UN official said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32456&Cr=undp&Cr1= Global cooperation crucial to achieving development targets, nations tell UN http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32346&Cr=mdg&Cr1= Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious anti-poverty targets agreed on by world leaders, by their 2015 deadline will require concert global cooperation, nations have told the General Assembly's high-level annual debate. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32346&Cr=mdg&Cr1= Dominican Republic calls for tax on tax havens to fund UN humanitarian goals http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32198&Cr=mdg&Cr1= Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández today called on the United Nations General Assembly to consider a possible tax on tax havens, off-shore banks and international financial centres to make up for the damage the global economic crisis has wrought on efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32198&Cr=mdg&Cr1=